2010 Album Release Calendar
Owen Pallett / photo by David Greenwald
Hello, 2010! Another year, another album/CD/EP/tape/madness release calendar. As always, listings are chosen based on quality or curiosity level and are by no means meant to be exhaustive. These listings will be updated throughout the year.
<< 2009 Album Release Calendar
January 12:
Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL) | REVIEW | BUY
Owen Pallett – Heartland (Domino)
Laura Veirs – July Flame (Raven Marching Band)
January 19:
Spoon – Transference (Merge) | REVIEW | BUY
Eels – End Times
January 26:
Free Energy – Stuck On Nothing (DFA/Astralwerks)
Citay – Dream Get Together (Dead Oceans)
>> “Careful With That Hat”: mp3
Magnetic Fields – Realism
Beach House – Teen Dream | REVIEW | BUY
Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM
Four Tet – There Is Love In You
Gigi – Maintenant (Tomlab)
Retribution Gospel Choir – 2 (Sub Pop)
February 2:
Midlake – The Courage of Others (Bella Union) | REVIEW | BUY
Mount Eerie – Black Wooden EP (Latitudes)
February 9:
Massive Attack – Heligoland
Pantha Du Prince – Black Noise (Rough Trade)
February 15:
Peter Gabriel – Scratch My Back (Virgin; UK release)
February 16:
Field Music – Measure (Memphis Industries) | REVIEW | BUY
Tindersticks – Falling Down A Mountain
Local Natives – Gorilla Manor (French Kiss)
February 23:
Toro Y Moi – Causers of This (Carpark)
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim – Here Lies Love (Vocal appearances by St. Vincent, Nellie McKay, etc.)
Dust From 1,000 Years – Marble Memo (Moon Jaw)
Rocky Votolato – True Devotion (Barsuk)
>> “Red River”: mp3
Eluvium – Similes (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Wolf People – Tidings (Jagjaguwar)
>> “October Fires”: mp3
Holly Miranda – The Magician’s Private Library (XL)
Fyfe Dangerfield (Guillemots) – Fly Yellow Moon (Geffen)
Quasi – American Gong (Kill Rock Stars)
Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago (Matador)
Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me (Drag City)
March 1:
Sam Amidon – I See The Sign (Bedroom Community)
March 2:
Rogue Wave – Permalight (Brushfire)
Clogs – The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton (feat. Sufjan Stevens, My Brightest Diamond, Matt Berninger)
March 9:
Ted Leo – The Brutalist Bricks (Matador)
>> “Even Heroes Have To Die”: mp3
>> “The Mighty Sparrow”: mp3
The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
>> “Albatross”: mp3
Miles Kurosky (Beulah) – The Desert of Shallow Effects
White Hinterland – Kairos (Dead Oceans)
>> “Icarus”: mp3
Liars – Sisterworld (Mute)
Aloha – Home Acres (Polyvinyl)
March 16:
Drive-By Truckers – The Big To-Do (ATO)
One for the Team – Ghosts (Afternoon Records)
The Whigs – In The Dark
ARMS – EP (self-released)
>> Free Download
March 22:
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
March 23:
She & Him – Volume 2 (Merge)
Jonsi (Sigur Ros) – Go
Black Tambourine – Complete Recordings (reissue; Slumberland)
Radar Brothers – The Illustrated Garden (Merge)
Phoenix – Live In Sydney
>> Free Download
March 30:
Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
>> “Jail La La”: mp3
Wooden Shjips – Volume 2 (compilation; Sick Thirst)
Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh (Universal Motown)
Twin Sister – Color Your Life EP
>> Color Your Life free download
April 6:
Sally Seltmann (formerly New Buffalo) – Heart That’s Pounding (Arts & Crafts)
April 13:
MGMT – Congratulations (Columbia)
Ghosty – Team Up Again EP
April 20:
Plants and Animals – La La Land (Secret City)
Rory Erickson (ex-13th Floor Elevators; backed by Okkervil River) – True Love Cast Out All Evil (Anti-)
Caribou – Swim (Merge)
Destroyer – City of Daughters, Thief, Streethawk reissues (Merge)
April 27:
Frog Eyes – Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph (Dead Oceans)
>> “A Flower In A Glove”: mp3
Avi Buffalo – s/t (Sub Pop)
>> “What’s It In For”: mp3
May 4:
The New Pornographers – Together (Matador)
>> “Your Hands (Together)”: mp3
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – I Learned The Hard Way (Dap-Tone)
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts)
The Hold Steady – Heaven Is Whenever (Vagrant)
Big Boi – Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)
May 11:
The National – High Violet
>> “Bloodbuzz Ohio”: mp3
Phosphorescent – Here’s To Taking It Easy (Dead Oceans)
>> “It’s Hard To Be Humble (When You’re From Alabama”: mp3
Foals – Total Life Forever (Sub Pop – digital release)
May 18:
Wild Nothing – Gemini (Captured Tracks)
Club 8 – The People’s Record (Labrador)
>> “Western Hospitality”: mp3
Band of Horses – Infinite Arms
LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin)
May 25:
Kurt Vile – Square Shells EP (Matador)
>> “Invisibility : Nonexistent”: mp3
June 1:
The Acorn – No Ghost (Paperbag)
Daniel Romano – Workin’ For The Music Man (You’ve Changed Records)
>> “A Losing Song”: mp3
Math and Physics Club – I Shouldn’t Look As Good As I Do (Matinee Recordings)
June 8:
Here We Go Magic – Pigeons
Tokyo Police Club – Champ (Mom+Pop)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today (Beggars Banquet)
>> “Round and Round”: mp3
Delorean – Subiza (True Panther)
>> “Stay Close”: mp3
Nina Nastasia – Outlaster
June 14:
Pernice Brothers – Goodbye, Killer (One Little Indian)
Mountain Man – Made The Harbor (Bella Union)
June 15:
Foals – Total Life Forever (Sub Pop)
June 22:
The Henry Clay People – Somewhere On The Golden Coast (TBD)
Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) – Live At Jittery Joe’s Reissue (American Dust)
David Karsten Daniels and Fight the Big Red Bull - I Mean To Live Here Still (FatCat)
June 29:
Wolf Parade – Expo 86 (Sub Pop)
July TBA:
The Books (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
July 13:
Sun Kil Moon – Admiral Fell Promises (Caldo Verde)
Halsted – Life Underwater (Ashbury Records)
July 20:
Department of Eagles – Archive 2003-2006 (American Dust)
July 27:
Menomena – Mines (Barsuk)
Futurebirds – Hampton’s Lullaby (Autumn Tone)
>> “Johnny Utah”: mp3
August 3:
Kisses – “People Can Do The Most Amazing Things” single (IAMSOUND)
August 17:
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Let It Sway (prod. Chris Walla)
>> “Sink / Let It Sway”: mp3
August 24:
Magic Kids – Memphis (True Panther)
August 31:
The Clientele – Minotaur (mini-album) (Merge)
Philip Selway (Radiohead) – Familial (Nonesuch)
September TBA:
Dungen – Skit I Allt (Subliminal Sounds)
September 7:
Electric Sunset – Electric Sunset (K)
The Thermals – Personal Life (Kill Rock Stars)
September 14:
Of Montreal – False Priest (prod. Jon Brion) | Track Review
Kanye West – Good Ass Job (rumored)
The Chapin Sisters – Two
The Walkmen – Lisbon | Track Review
September 21:
Latitia Sadler (Stereolab, Monade) – The Trip (Drag City)
September 28:
Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest (4AD)
No Age – Everything In Between (Sub Pop)
Salem – King Night (IAMSOUND)
Women – Public Strain
Nellie McKay – Home Sweet Mobile Home (Verve)
Other releases:
The Pass – Colors EP (out now on iTunes)
>> “Colors”: mp3
2010 TBA:
Acid House Kings
Antony & The Johnsons – Swan Lights
Arcade Fire
Cat Power
Evangelicals
Fleet Foxes
Interpol
Kisses – The Heart of the Nightlife
>> “Bermuda”: mp3
Neil Young (prod. Daniel Lanois)
No Age
Panda Bear – Tomboy
Pepper Rabbit
Ravens & Chimes
Rooftop Vigilantes – Real Pony Glue
>> “Seth No Jump”: mp3
The Long Winters
The One AM Radio
>> “Credible Threats”: mp3
The Strokes
The Russian Futurists – The Weight’s On The Wheels
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse OST (yes, really)
The World Record
The Wrens
2010 Rumor Mill:
Radiohead and/or Thom Yorke/Atoms For Peace
Sufjan Stevens
Jens Lekman
Belle & Sebastian
Casimer Pascal (ex-Pas/Cal) – solo debut
The Thrills/Conor Deasy release
Jon Brion sophomore album
Destroyer
2011:
The Shins
